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paytonjjones | on: Shopify replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations–and it scaled
It's honestly weird Claude converges on this language because it's incredibly wordy and hard to parse.

One would think semantic density would win out in training.

true_religion | parent | next
Why? This is a common transition that people use in speech and text.

Close out previous paragraph. Segue to completely different topic.

How else are you supposed to go on a tangent?

peyton | parent | next
Who knows. I wish ant harshly penalized speaking litotically because it’s essentially reward hacking as it can often be read multiple ways.

It’s also annoying as a human because Claude et al rate their own writing very highly, putting human<>LLM interactions at a disadvantage to human->LLM<>LLM interactions.

jasonlotito | parent
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nozzlegear | root | parent | next
It's not hard to parse, but it's a dense pair of sentences that say nothing. It just pads the length of the article and gives readers mental fatigue trying to read between the lines to figure out what the point is.
CoolestBeans | root | parent | next
I actually don't think this article was LLM generated but these two sentences suck. I think they were moved from another part of the article without being modified.

First, "the hardest lesson". What lesson? It is out of context. Nobody was talking about lessons before this.

Second, "the bottleneck wasn't what we were measuring and observing". Of course the bottleneck itself wasn't that. They couldn't discover what the bottleneck was using the information in their measurements and observations.

It is a clunky and frankly incorrect passage in an otherwise well written article.

ares623 | root | parent
Sure, it's not technically hard to read.

But it suuucks, making it hard to read, the same way (some) fast/junk food is hard to swallow.

They have access to a trillion dollar writing machine god, and they choose to publish that.